Envy Quotes - Page 2

You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.

Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today - gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.

I admire Shakespeare enormously. But since I can’t be him, I’m glad that his marriage was unhappy and he’s dead.

Envy is for people who don’t have the self-esteem to be jealous.

I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire.
Another life is never safely envied.

Saying of the Prophet
Envy
Envy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.

There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?

If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs.

Harboring envy is saying to God that how He fashioned you in not good enough. Let it go. Embrace who you were created to be.

If people are jealous of you, it means you are worth something.

If you just can’t get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you’d be envious of you.

Fiercely guard the passions igniting your heart, so that your flames reach the highest ceilings of success without the eyes of envy.

He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice.

Those who envy the success of others are normally ignorant to the sacrafices, failures, and dedication that it took for them to get there

If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.

Jealousy is not there to encourage you to make someone fail, but there to encourage one to do more than the one they envy.

Fear of nature led to society; hatred among men lead to culture; envy among women led to virtue.

I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child born mid-flight has no nation. I can pull on either culture, but they always melt like a dream, trickle away, water on the oiled pelt of foreign.

Envy, as distasteful as it is, has seeped into my mind on rare occasions, and those I've envied, although few in number, have only been those that live a life of leisure with peace of mind and time to do such wonderful things as read.

You have a dedication to life and truth that burns out of you as beauty and I envy it so much I want to be around it for the rest of my life.